alt Hacker NewsThis is arguably one of the biggest outages in modern history. AWS region level outage was more visible, but email is a backbone of the modern world.
BBC is running live coverage of it at the level of government and ministers, feels surreal
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devsda • today at 9:25 AM
Felt bad for the engineers that it had to happen on a Friday but for a multi day outage I guess it's a blessing in disguise.
Barring corona & year end holidays, this is probably the closest we can get to a global work holiday.
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oblio • today at 9:45 AM
Who wants to bet that this is ultimately due to AI, either an action taken by AI or just general AI code rot coupled with developer knowledge decay?
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I wonder whether this will help the already strengthening trend of some governments to unstick themselves from Microsoft (in particular their cloud).
I don't expect a fundamental shift but the boss having no access to his mails certainly seems like something I would bring up quite a bit.